Unseen Presence

@larry

And today you suddenly sound like you’ve joined my way of looking at things. Or are at least a step closer.

I will say this: I can certainly appreciate that at this moment, I feel like I can see things a little more clearly than some others, at least, because I’ve NOT been caught up/dragged through/influenced by all of these various…[Read more]

@larry

There we can agree. Emotional honesty has risks and remains the better choice despite them. One thing I am not afraid of is any question this experience will ask me–there is no question they can ask that I have not already asked myself (and many that I do not believe they could ever contemplate to ask, because again I’m in here 100% of…[Read more]

@larry:

FWIW, I don’t actually disagree that emotional honesty is a smart way to respond to things. It is my preference whenever faced with such options (although I cannot claim to be 100% perfect. I’ve failed–badly–in my past, and it has cost me dearly and in ways that I cannot ever repair or replace. Hence why I try hard to be honest now.…[Read more]

@remrelganaps:

IMO, the short answer is ‘No, it would not exist.’

The much longer answer requires a long diversion into what constitutes ‘observation’, ‘living’ and ‘awareness’. Much too long for me on a Sunday afternoon when I am already tired from another night of far too many thoughts and not nearly enough actual sleep. But suffice it to say…[Read more]

You are correct, @coryphella, that there are multiple ways of responding to ‘them’. I used ‘joining’ them because if you choose to accept -their- truth, then they appear to believe that those are the only two choices. In my above post, I chose to accept that duality of an answer because it created the simplest other/opposite choice.

I disagree…[Read more]

@larry:

I used to believe the way you did. Honestly, I did. I sought ‘objective truth’ in all that I did, or at least strove to be on that path.

Unfortunately (and I mean that word in its most sincere sense), I have come to realize that there -is- no such thing. There is nothing -objective- in the universe.

Our existence is virtual–but it…[Read more]

No remorse, no retribution
Just…
Winning, winning, winning.

That’s certainly one way of looking at it, @larry. In fact, there’s an argument to be made that in today’s world, that seems to be ALL that matters. Winning. It doesn’t matter if you’re right or wrong, if you’re speaking the truth or fiction.

It doesn’t matter if this is a game, or…[Read more]

I tend to be a great deal more pessimistic about it all. The Internet was supposed to be the way for us to finally break free of corporate, large-scale control. It was supposed to be the dawn of truth and getting past corruption and attempts to shut down freedom.

Instead, all it’s done is erase the possibility of “facts” and “truth”, in favor of…[Read more]